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The Peaceful Resolution Of Norfolk's Integration Crisis Of 1958-1959, Nancy Parker Ford
The Peaceful Resolution Of Norfolk's Integration Crisis Of 1958-1959, Nancy Parker Ford
History Theses & Dissertations
In 1958 Norfolk experienced one of the most serious crises in its long history when six of its public secondary schools were closed by the governor. The closings were a result of Virginia's massive resistance program and forced 10,000 students to seek alternative education for five months or abandon their education entirely. Interviews with major participants in the crisis as well as investigation of newspaper accounts and editorials, personal papers of participants, city and School Board documents, and major works on the period reveal the factors involved in Norfolk's peaceful approach to integration. A comparison with the situation in Little …
The 316th Air Division (Defense) In Morocco: Operations Section 1957-1960, Michael W. Price
The 316th Air Division (Defense) In Morocco: Operations Section 1957-1960, Michael W. Price
Morehead State Theses and Dissertations
A thesis presented to the faculty of the School of Social Sciences at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in History by Michael W. Price in February of 1989.
Horace Mann: A Comparison Of A Traditional And A Revisionist Biography, George C. Whiting
Horace Mann: A Comparison Of A Traditional And A Revisionist Biography, George C. Whiting
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this study was to compare a traditional biography, Burke A. Hinsdale's Horace Mann and the Common School Revival in the United States (1900), and a revisionist biography, Jonathan Messerli's Horace Mann: a Biography (1972), within a "neutral" frame of reference to determine which author made the more logical use of evidence to support his argument.;David H. Fischer's Historians' Fallacies (1970) and Richard E. Neustadt & Ernest R. May's Thinking in Time (1986) were used to formulate a "neutral" frame of reference within which to analyze the two biographies.;Hinsdale's explanation was found to consist of a series of …